As I mentioned in my previous post, I have decided that we need to lose some weight this year. And I don’t want to just lose weight; I want to permanently alter some of our bad habits to promote a healthy lifestyle. In the past, we always would take a drastic approach and significantly alter our eating and increase our training for a race to try to lose weight. The problem is that we can usually only last around a month or maybe two at most before we give up and slowly go back to our old ways. I think the biggest reason we usually fail is that the changes made are too drastic and the time commitment required for the food preparation and exercise routines is too great. So this time, we’re going to take a different approach.
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I had been thinking for a long time about what to get Ryan for a wedding gift. A long time ago I thought I could maybe save up and help him buy a VW bus but as you know, right after we got engaged he bought himself a bus. So that wouldn't work...I thought about getting him a gift certificate to have the bus sandblasted and painted but I wasn't sure how far along he would be with the bus or where he would trust to paint his bus. Then I realized...there's one thing that Ryan mentions constantly that is too expensive for a birthday or christmas gift. He constantly says "well if I ever get a 3D printer I can print a new part for that and fix it...".
For those of you who don't know what a 3D printer is, it is a machine that can make parts out of plastic from a CAD model. It takes a 3D computer CAD model, and slices it up into thin layers. Then the printer heats up plastic and lays it down layer by layer until it has made a real part that matches what the model shows. At my work we have a very large and VERY expensive 3D printer that we use for mockups, test fitting parts and even some temporary tooling. But over the last few years, much smaller and more affordable options have started showing up on the market. One of the really fancy looking ones out there right now is the MakerBot Replicator 2. Like many other people around the world, the start of a new year encourages me to make new goals and try to improve upon various areas of my life. Some years I did well making my goals and others I lost steam mid-way through the year. Looking back, the years I did well were the years that I kept close track of my progress. So now that I have a blog, I can update you guys with my progress and hopefully motivate myself to meet those goals! I have quite a few goals so I break them up into categories like so:
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